Instead, therefore, of being angry with them, or fretting and complaining about the trouble they give her, she should leave them, as it were, out of the case, and turn her thoughts to herself, and to her own management, with a view to the discovery and the correcting of her own derelictions and errors.

In a word, she must set regularly and systematically about the work of _teaching_ her children to subject their will to hers.
_Three Methods_.
I shall give three principles of management, or rather three different classes of measures, by means of which children may certainly be made obedient.

The most perfect success will be attained by employing them all.
But they require very different degrees of skill and tact on the part of the mother.

The first requires very little skill.

It demands only steadiness, calmness, and perseverance.